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. H. H. PAYZANT MEANS FOR BHANDING OR MARKING LUMBER Filed Sept. 21, 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 IHHW WITNESSES ATTORNEY Patented Apr. .22, 1924.

' UNITED STATES HENRY HARRIS PAYZANT, OF EVERETT, WASHING-TON, ASSIG-DIOB T warne- HAEUSER TIMBER CGMPANY, 0F EVERETT, WASHINGTQN.

MEANS FOR BBANDING 0R MARKING LUMBER.

Application filed. September 21, 1921. Serial No. 502,175.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. PAYZANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Everett, in the county of Snohomish and State of W ashing ton, have invented a new and useful Means for Branding or Marking Lumber, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to a means for imprinting trademarks or other marks on lumber, and its object is to provide a device for applying an imprint to a board or the like, which device can be installed in any place through which the lumber is moving. The device need not be applied to any particular machine, but is complete in itself, and may therefore be installed and used in many different places and under varying conditions.

The device may be installed behind a planer, and may, if desired, be used over sorting chains and belt conveyers, and, in fact, in any place where lumber is moved by means of chains or rolls, or the like, either crosswise or lengthwise.

In accordance with the invention, the trade-marking device is located at the out feed end of the wood-working machine, and is particularly useful in connection with machinery that has been already installed.

The invention is similar in principle to, although differing in detail, from, a trademarking device for wood-working machinery fer which an application for Letters Patent has been filed of even date herewith Serial No. 502,174. The generic claims are included in the other application.

There are, however, claimsin this application which are generic to my third application, Serial No 502,176.

This invention, as well as the companion invention, differs from other means of imprinting trade-marks 0n lumber, in that, in prior instances, the printing has been accomplished by use of hand-stamps, or by circular diesattached to the outfeed end of the woodworking machines and held in constant contact with the lumber, thus producing an undesirable condition, in that an imprint is produced for the entire length of the board. There are still other types of ma chines which make only one imprint on each piece of board or other lumber, but it has been accomplished by the use of complicated and expensive machinery, which is obviated by this invention.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, with the tmderstanding, however, that the invention is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention, as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device, engaged by a piece of lumber preparatory to the imprinting of the trademark.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, with certain parts removed.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section showing the lumber more advanced in position than in Fig. 2.

Fig. I is a section on the line l of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation, with the parts arranged as in Fig. 1, and showing a somewhat modified form.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a portion A, of a woodworking machine of known form, to which the device of the invention is applied. The machine A carries a guide B, indicated as of angle form, and which may be composed of a metal angle strip, along one long edge of which a planed board or trip C is fed to a point from which it may be discharged.

Attached to an appropriate part of the machine A, is a board or other like support 1, having the plate 2 made fast thereto by bolts 3, or other suitable fastening means, traversing inclined slots 4, and permitting adjustment of the plate 2, both back and forth and up and down.

Fast to the machine A, for adjustment with relation thereto by participation in the adjustment of the plate 2, is a block 5, to which is attached one end of a bar 6, which, near the other end, rests upon a stop block 7 made fast to the machine A.

The bar 6 extends beyond the block 7 on the side thereof remote from the block 5, and is there made fast by screws 8, or in other appropriate manner, to a housing or casing 9, on one end of which is formed a nose or shoe l0, shaped to be engaged by the advancing end of the board or lumber C, and suitably curved to provide a cam surface under which the lumber will ride and thus lift the housing, the bar 6 yielding for the purpose.

The strip or bar 6 has its free end yieldingly held down by a spring 11, mounted in a bracket 12, attached to the plate 2, and provided with an adjusting screw 13, permitting variation in the action of the spring 11.

The housing or casing 9 is hollow, and is provided with a removable cover 14, permitting access to the interior of the housing, and, the bottom of the housing is cut away, as shown at 15, permitting the projection of a rockable segment 16 from said housing through the cutaway portion 15. The segment 16 is carried by a pivot pin 17, about which the segment may rock on a substantially horizontal axis. At that face of the segn'ient 16 remote from the pin 17, it carries an imprinting stamp 18 to produce a trademark or other impression on the lumber C, and the parts are so proportioned that in normal position with the strip or bar 6 resting on the stop 7, the shoe or nose 10 is behind the stop 7 with the open side 15 of the casing engaging the top of the lumber C.

At the broad end of the segment 16, there is corner projection or abutment 19, so located as to be engaged by the advancing end of the lumber C and thereby rock the seg ment 16 on the pivot 17. However, there is not enough clearance between the segment 16 and the upper surface of the lumber to permit this, wherefore the bar or strip 6 will yield and the housing 9 will rise as the lumber C advances and rock the segment 16 to bring the stamp 18 into surface engagement with the lumber C, with the parts related as indicated in Fig. 3, the spring 11 permitting such movement, and imparting force enough through the stamp 18 to produce the desired impression on the lumber. Continued movement of the lumber causes the segment to be oscillated rearwardly on its pivot until it assumes a horizontal position in trailing relation to the housing, and this action, of course, lowers the housing to inc position shown in Fig. 1, and the board travels along with the parts in these positions until the end is reached. In order to impart a normal constraint to the segment lo to cause it to return into the housing 9 after reaching the end of the board, a coiled spring 20 is wound about the pivot pin 17 and is engaged with the segment 16 and housing 9, adjacent to the pin 17, in such manner to cause the segment 16, when unrestrained, to move into the housing, lifting the stamp 18 thereinto.

l Vithin the housing 9 there is located an ink reservoir 21, with one end closed per- LLD The reservoir 21 is carried by a At the upper end of the stem 23, is a leaf 7 spring 26, engaging the inner surface of the top of the housing 9, and having a normal tendency to rockthe reservoir 21, so that it will incline downwardly toward the end closed by the plug 22. Vhen the segment 16 is within the housing 9 under the constraint of the spring 20, the segmentengages a tripping finger 27 fast to and projecting from the stem 28, the parts being associated so that the spring 20 overcomes the spring 26, and the stamp 18 is brought opposite the pad 22, whereupon the pad and stamp are brought together into inking relation. The segment 16 is stopped by engagement with the adjacent end of the housing 9 ready for the next engagement of a piece of lumber C, with the segment 16 to rock it against the action of the spring 20 and into contact with the upper surface of the lumber after being forced out of the housing 9 andlifted in opposition to the tendency of the spring 11. I

Fig. 5 is in the main similar to the structure of Fig. 1, but differs in providing a shoe or nose 10 of skeleton form,'made fast to the housing 9 instead of being formed in one piece therewith. Otherwise, the structure of Fig. 5 may correspond to the structure of Fig. 1, except that in place of the bar 6, the .ousing 9 is carried by a flat spring 6 and the block 5 is fixedly secured to the machine A.

W hat is claimed is 1. A means for marking moving lumber, comprising a housing made hollow, means for constraining said housing into the path of moving lumber and yieldable to the passage of the same, a movable marking member pivoted to the housing and having a normal constraint to enter said housing, and pro vided with an abutment normally projecting from the housing into the path of the lumber, and a marking means on said member above the abutment, said abutment being engaged by the end of th lumber to turn it on its pivot and cause the marking means to contact with the face of the lumber, and at the same time, cause the housing to rise as the lumber is advanced.

2. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing normally in the path of moving lumber, means on the housing for engagement by moving lumber to lift the housing by said movement, yielding means associated with the housing to constrain it toward the lumber, and marking means having a normal constraint to enter said housing.

3. In a means for marking lumber, a support, a housing connected to said supportso as to be movable horizontally as well as vertically, means for constraining the housing into the path of moving lumber, and a marking member pivoted to swing about an axis transverse to the direction of said path and movable from within the housing to marking position.

4. In a means for marking lumber, a sup port, a housing connected by a bolt and slot means to the support so as to be movable horizontally and vertically, means for constraining the housing into the path of moving lumber and yieldable to the passage of the same, and a marking member movable from within the housing to marking position.

5. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing normally in the path of moving lumber, said housing having a shoe at one end, means for constraining the housing toward the said lumber, said means being yieldable to the passage of the lumber, and a marking member pivoted to the housing and depending from the latter in the path 01" the said lumber, said marking member hav ing an abutment to be engaged by said lumher.

6. A means for marking luu'iber, comprising a housing with yieldable inking means therein, and a movable marking member therein having spring means for imparting to it a normal constraint to enter the housing and engage the inking means, and yieldable to moving lumber to leave the housing and assume a marking position.

7. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing, a yieldable inking member in said housing and provided with an ink reservoir, a marking member movable into and out of engagement with the yieldable inking member in the housing and in turn yieldable to moving lumber engaging it to cause said marking member to assume a marking position.

8. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing made hollow and open at the bottom, a yieldable inking means provided with an ink reservoir and located in the housing above the open bottom, and a rockable marking member pivoted to the housing and movable through the opening in the bottom into engagement with the inking means, and having means for returning it to ink-receiving position after being moved from said housing by the movement of lumher.

9. A means for marking moving lumber, comprising a housing, a rock-able marking member normally projecting from the housing into thepath of the lumber, and inking means for said marking member contained within the housing, said inking means having a normal constraint to move away from the marking member and provided with means engaged by it when moving under its normal constraint to force the inking means and marking member into contact.

10. A. means for marking lumber, comprising a housing, means for constraining said housing into the path of moving lumher and yieldable to the passage of same, a rockable marking member normally projecting from the housing into the path of said lumber, and inking means for the swinging marking member.

11. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing, means for constraining the housing into the path of moving lumber and yieldable to the passage of the lumber, a rockable marking member normally projecting from the housing into the path of the lumber, and swinging inking means for said member, having a normal constraint to move away from the said member and provided with means engaged by it when moving under its normal constraint, to force the inking means and marking member together.

12. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing normally in the path of moving lumber, means on the housing for engagement by moving lumber to lift the housing by said movement, yielding means associated with the housing to constrain it toward the lumber, inking means in the housing, and marking means having a normal constraint to enter said housing and engage the inking means.

13. In means for marking lumber, a support, a housing connected to said support so as to be movable horizontally as well as vertically, means for constraining the housing into the path of moving lumber, inking means within the housing, and a marking member movable within the housing into contact with the inking means and movable without the housing into marking position.

14. in a means for marking lumber, a sup port, a housing connected by a bolt and slot means to the support so as to be movable horizontally andvertically, means for constraining the housing into the path of moving lumber and yieldable to the passage of the same, inking means within the housing, and a rockable marking member movable within the housing into contact with the inking means and movable without the housing into marking position.

15. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing, inking means in the housing, and marking means having a normal constraint to enter the housing and engage the inking means, said inking means having a normal constraint to move away from the marking means and provided with means ooacting with the marking means to move the inking means when engaged thereby into inking relation thereto. e

16. A; means for markingv lumber, comprising a housing normally in the path of traveling lumber, means on the housing for engagement by the moving lumber to lift the housing by the lumber, yieldable means associatedwith the housing to constrain it tovward the lumber, inking means in the housing, and marking means having a normal constraint to enter thehousing andengage the inking means, said inking means having a normal constraint to move away from the marking means and provided with means coacting with the marking meansto move the inking means when engaged thereby into inking relation thereto. 7

17. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing, a movable ink reservoir in the housing having a normal constraint in one direction, and a movable stamp carrier having a normal constraint to enter the housing and engage thevink reservoir and bring the ink reservoir in engagement with the stamp on the carrier.

18. In a means for marking moving lumber, a housing, a swinging ink reservoir mounted therein having an ink absorbing face, a spring constraining the reservoir in one direction, a trip device carried by the reservoir structure, and a movable stamp carrier movable into and out of thehousing and located to engage the trip device when within the housing and bring the stamp into contact with the ink absorbing face, said stamp carrier having an abutment engaged by the lumber to move thestamp carrier outside the housing to a marking position.

19. In a means for marking lumber, a housing, an ink reservoir within the housing having a stem provided with a trip device, a plug or pad of absorbent material closing the end of the reservoir adjacent to the trip de vice, a spring normally causing thereservoir to tip toward the end closed by the plug, and a stamp carrier swingingly-mounted in relation to the housing to engage the trip-device and force the inking plug or pad into engagement with the stamp.

20. In a means for marking lumber, a housing, an ink reservoir Within the housing having a stem provided with a trip device, a filling tube on the reservoir, a plug or pad of absorbent material closing the end of the reservoir adjacent to the trip device, a spring normally causing the reservoir to tip toward the end closed by the pad Or plug, and

a stamp carrier swingingly mounted on the housing in position to engage the trip device and force the inking plug or padinto enga ement with the stamp, said stamp carrier having a spring associated therewith vand normally constraining the stamp carrier to enter the housing and engage the trip device to bring the stamp and inking plug into contact for inking the stamp. I o

21. A means for marking lumber, comprising a housing normally in the path of moving lumber, said housing having a shoe at one end, means for constraining the housing toward the said lumber, said means being yieldable to the passage of the lumber, inking means within the housing, and a movablemarking member pivoted to the housing and depending from the latter in the path of the said lumber, said marking member having an abutment to be engaged by said lumber.

22. In a means for marking moving lumber, comprising a housing normally in the path of movement of the lumber, said housing having a shoe at one end, means for conlumber, said housing moving upwardly as the lumber advances and the marking member contacts with the lumber.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature.

HENRY HARRIS PAYZANT. 

